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Celebrating the Winter Solstice
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on December 26, 2014, 09:57:19 am ---I'd have to agree, that would drive me nuts!
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We'll have to schedule our visit around the equinoxes. ;D
Front-Ranger:
One of the big things you learn when you travel is that people have the innate ability to adjust to many different situations. In 2010, I spent the summer solstice in Scotland and oftentimes woke up at about 3:30 am when the sun came up. Remembering back, I didn't go to bed earlier, either, but I slept harder or more efficiently than usual, so I wasn't tired! Which was a good thing because I wanted to spend as much time seeing Scotland as possible!
I'd be interested in hearing how people made adjustments to their daily routines during their travels.
Sason:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on December 22, 2014, 10:45:10 am ---This is why I like to buy a local almanac every year. It shows the time of sunrise and sunset for every day in the year, so I can track the increasing length of sunlight hours. :)
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My morning paper used to do that, but not any more. I've fallen out of the habit to check the time every day because of that.
In mid January the days are getting visibly longer here, esp noticable in the afternoon.
Sason:
--- Quote from: southendmd on December 23, 2014, 12:20:06 pm ---I can do that on my phone too.
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That's a good idea.
Sason:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 25, 2014, 03:32:42 pm ---Well, it makes me feel less envious of Scandinavians, though in almost every other way it does seem like it would be a great place to live.
I was talking to a coworker who lived in Iceland for a year. In the middle of winter, daylight was the sun rolling along the horizon for a few hours. In the summer, they'd come out of the bars at 2 a.m. to bright shining sun. I don't think I would like either one.
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Many years ago I spent a vacation hiking with a friend, way the hell up in northern Sweden, well above the polar circle.
It never got even remotely dark, on the contrary it was bright daylight around the clock.
I had expected it to be hard to fall asleep, but it wasn't. (I was 18, at that age people usually don't have any problems sleeping ::))
The really strange feeling came on the train back to southern Sweden, when it suddenly got dark again!
We hadn't had any darkness for 2 weeks, and all of a sudden it was totally dark outside the train windows! That was the strangest feeling! :D
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